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The Eagles Come to Allentown, and So Does 'American Futures'
Tomorrow is the first day in an old city's new life—or so the city leaders hope and believe.
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Tomorrow is the first day in an old city's new life—or so the city leaders hope and believe.
Everybody talks about the future, but nobody does anything about it.
"The decision on HSR is going to shape the future in ways we can’t predict, and a touch of modesty in the arguments would be welcome."
You want to hear more about the biggest infrastructure project being considered anywhere in the country? You've come to the right place.
"Bad, bad, bad," and other critiques
And so do some readers.
People in Los Angeles and San Francisco often say that the initial links in a proposed north-south system would be "trains to nowhere." People from nowhere weigh in.
A solution looking for a problem? A genuine leap forward? The best we can expect from messy political half-measures? Or something truly brave? Take your pick.
For your reference, a detailed pro-and-con about the most ambitious current attempt to change America's transportation infrastructure
It's time for broader national attention to the most expensive and ambitious infrastructure proposal in America today.
Every big infrastructure project is controversial. Most of them work out better than critics contend early on. But maybe the critics are right about high-speed rail. Let's hear what they say.
"It indeed is an oasis, but the passion and commitment are replicable elsewhere." A Kenyan-born man working in Mississippi on some of the things the state has done right.
The Erie Canal. The transcontinental railroad. The Interstate Highway system. Big, expensive, controversial—and indispensable. Is the next one in this series a new rail network in our most famously freeway-centric state?
It's one thing to draw high-skill, high-wage jobs to a place that has historically lacked opportunities. It's something else altogether to find people qualified to fill them. A local answer to a national question.
"The kind of people who might have gone to NASA in the 1960s, Wall Street in the 1980s, or Silicon Valley in the late 1990s are now, I think, more likely than ever to work in municipal government." So says a well-educated young small-town mayor.
The regional differences, and similarities, in the long struggle to come to terms with racial injustice in the United States.
An evening in the ballpark, a look into the sports-in-America beat.
Can the media avoid a freak-show tone?
High-school science projects from Mississippi
Northerners and Southerners, blacks and whites, grapple once more with the question of "what's the worst we will put up with?"
"Should the people in Mississippi stay poor? I would suggest taking a serious look at the answer 'yes'." So says a reader who lives elsewhere.
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